Five years ago, Japan’s Akatsuki probe missed its Venus rendezvous and spun away from the planet into its own orbit around the sun. This week, the probe got another chance to enter orbit and the early results look quite positive.

For a limited time, Lenovo is selling the 14-inch IdeaPad Y700 gaming laptop at a whopping 41% discount. When you use today’s coupon code in your shopping cart, you’ll get a portable gaming rig with a new Skylake CPU and an AMD Radeon R9 M375 graphics card for under 700 bucks.

AMD has big plans for future high dynamic range displays in 2016, and new features for its FreeSync monitors. HDMI support, low framerate compensation, and vastly improved color are all rolling out next year.

Nintendo has been close-mouthed about its plans for the Nintendo NX, but a recent patent filing may have tipped the company’s hand. If so, then the company’s next-gen console will pack some unique capabilities we’ve never seen ship in traditional consumer gaming hardware.

Water cooler manufacturer Asetek is flexing its muscle and demanding that both AMD and Gigabyte cease selling hardware that it claims violates its patents. AMD, at least, is disputing that claim and shows no interest in pulling the Fury X off the market.